An Amazing Career Opportunity for Senior Firmware Engineer
Location: Durban, South Africa
Job ID: 32656
Profile Summary:
At HID, as part of the Physical Access Control Systems business unit, we produce cutting-edge security products. The PACS business is highly visible and one of our most significant portfolios within HID Global. The PACS products include smart cards, mobile access and identifications, software, services, and controllers for physical access control.
You would be joining as a firmware engineer where you will work with the teams in a Scaled Agile environment. The primary focus of this role is the development of the Biometrics product line. You will be working in an embedded Linux environment, implementing secure and performant applications.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Collaborating with other teams to ensure successful delivery of products.
- Participate in security reviews with the team helping to identify problem areas.
- Assist in finding solutions to the identified problems.
- Participate in preparing, reviewing, and completing project documentation.
- Work on setting up and maintaining devops pipelines.
- Help with identifying and rectifying security-related issues.
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Legally eligible to work in South Africa.
- Strong communication skills in English.
- BSc in Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
- 5+ years of practical engineering experience.
- Expert in C/C++, able to write performant, maintainable code.
- Proficient in developing within an embedded Linux environment.
- Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as Docker.
- Ability to analyze a problem and determine the best steps to solve it.
- Ability to participate in the design process, providing insight and guidance.
- Comfortable working with in-circuit emulators, GNU toolchains, gdb, and cmake.
- Strict attention to detail.
- Experience with distributed embedded systems.
- Familiarity with Git and Git workflows.
- Dedicated to learning and continuous growth.
- Capable of taking a task assigned to you and demonstrating steady progress.
- Able to identify unknowns in assigned tasks and go through the discovery process.
Preference will be given to candidates with the following:
- Familiarity with Yocto/Openembedded Linux.
- Experience with Secure Software Development Lifecycles.
- Experience with Cryptographic Standards.
- Experience with QA processes.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity-related tools and testing methodologies.
- SAFe or Agile experience.
- Experience with gitflow.
- Experience with DevSecOps and tools like Snyk and Zaproxy.
Why apply?
- Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes. If you have most of the skills and experience, we want you to apply.
- Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing, or part-time job seekers.
- Integrity: You are results-oriented, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves, to feel appreciated and accepted.
This opportunity may be open to flexible working arrangements.
HID is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.
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